About This Role
This position maintains security within the institution and oversees the health and safety of staff and prisoners. The role involves physically patrolling and visually inspecting units, yards, buildings, prisoners, prisoner property, and clothing to ensure welfare, safety, and security, as well as preventing prisoner escape.
Responsibilities
- Maintain security within the institution and oversee the health and safety of staff and prisoners
- Physically patrol and visually inspect units, yards, buildings, prisoners, prisoner property, and clothing to ensure welfare, safety, and security
- Maintain visual surveillance of grounds by foot
- Prevent prisoner escape
- Perform inspections and searches of physical premises and cells checking for contraband and compliance with regulations
- Investigate and report unusual circumstances
- Conduct pat and/or strip searches of prisoners and visitors
- Ensure the safety and security of the jail and everyone in it
- Book/process new inmates, which includes fingerprinting and photographing inmates
- Control inmate movement and jail records/logs including housing assignments, meals, boards, and inmate rosters during each shift
- Maintain control and discipline including use of physical restraint and restraining devices
- Take actions in suspected or obvious cases of medical emergencies
- Receive and review a variety of information to include arrest reports, criminal histories, information on arrestees, personal information, warrants, on-views, victim notifications, teletype/hit confirmations, police reports, complaints, inmate ID information, SOP reports, TTY reports, shift reports and caution reports
- Prepare and/or generate a variety of information to include medical histories, mental health histories, booking paperwork, bond sheets, money receipts, property sheets, disciplinary reports, incident reports, court report/list, jail rosters, nurse list, maintenance reports, medication logs, and release paperwork
- Refer to city operation policies, Corrections SOPs, e-mails, booking paperwork, arrest reports, criminal history, court commitments, standard operating procedures, shift reports, jail rosters, caution indicators, holds with other PDs, city operational policies and court personnel
- Utilize a variety of computer software such as Jail Pak, Gmail, Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, camera system, door lock system, internet, intercom, Baldwin County Jail View, fingerprinting software, and US Foods
- Interact and communicate with a wide variety of groups and individuals to include police officers, other public agencies, court magistrates, general public, inmates, Corrections Officers, Court Clerks, bonding companies, visitors, Chief of Police, Deputy Chief of Police, Lieutenant over jail, nurses, and the Chief Corrections Officer